The Studio at Explore What’s Next offers gentle, nurturing self-care classes & workshops. Our mission is to be a resource center for anyone who wishes to enhance their well-being, while feeling emotionally and physically vulnerable at the same time. From our sensitive awareness perspective and trauma-informed care training, we explore yoga, meditation and mindfulness as well as provide workshops, seminars and groups in a wide-array of subjects, from baby-proofing your relationship, living with chronic illness, to financial wellness and more. To be as strong, confident and resilient as we can be, we believe that a healthy mind thrives in a healthy body. All offerings at The Studio are open to the public in our beautiful, ADA compliant space.

“Explore What’s Next therapists know this is a vulnerable time for you. We do not take your respect and trust for granted. We earn them.”

~Dr. Aletta

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy or counseling, is a talking treatment, where a troubling psychological, behavioral, emotional or relationship issue is effectively addressed through developing a working relationship, and talking with, a qualified licensed professional who has appropriate the education and training.

Therapy can come in different types or modalities. Psycho-educational, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, acceptance and commitment therapy, supportive, solution focused, trauma-informed, individual, relationship, group… A skilled therapist is a human being who genuinely wants to know what it’s like to be you so that they can help you. We struggle with you to figure out where the obstacles are, how to get around, over or through them, to find the healthy, happy you.

“Explore What’s Next therapists know this is a vulnerable time for you. We do not take your respect and trust for granted. We earn them.”

~Dr. Aletta

LGBTQ+

Explore What’s Next is excited to announce our newest group: LGBTQ+ empowered! LGBTQ+ empowered is a six-week support group for teens and young adults. The group will meet one day per week for an hour and fifteen minutes at our Delaware Ave. Office with group leaders: Colleen Conjerti, PsyD and Christine Frank, LMSW.

LGBTQ+ empowered will provide a safe and supportive environment to discuss and explore a variety of topics. Sessions will include check-ins, mini mindfulness practices, goal development and maintenance, as well as some creative coping activities participants can take home with them!

We want this group to focus on topics relevant to teens and young adults who are part of the LGBTQ+ community! This will be a place where your voice is heard and understood!

Although we will focus on topics participants would like to cover, a few areas we plan to address include:

Social Issues

Healthy Relationships

Friendships

Family

The Process of Coming Out

Anxiety & Depression

Self Esteem

Coping Skills

Assertiveness

And more!!!

Before the group begins, participants will meet with Dr. Colleen Conjerti or Christine Frank, LMSW. This gives us a chance to meet face-to-face, discuss the group in further detail, and decide if you would like to sign up!

Good counseling is no longer limited to a brick and mortar office.” ~Dr. Aletta

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING & ASSESSMENT

Psychological testing is often requested by schools to evaluate a student for support services, by physicians, other professionals, sometimes the patient themselves, to clarify a diagnostic picture and to focus treatment more effectively.Psychological assessment highlights personal strengths and areas of vulnerability, while providing information to improve academic, social, behavioral or daily life functioning.If you or a family member needs a psychological assessment contact us.

“Seeking out a comprehensive psychological assessment can be overwhelming, we provide the guidance and support you need, while offering compassionate answers to difficult questions.”

~Colleen Conjerti

TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS

It is not unusual for teens and twenty-somethings to experience emotional highs and lows as they move through this challenging phase of life. Teens, emerging adults, and their parents all need to be aware of the differences between “normal” moodiness and stress, and what constitutes a mental health issue.

Mental disorders, especially anxiety and depression, impact all aspects of a teen or young adult’s life: appetite, sleep, the ability to focus or concentrate, be creative, and learn new things. Irritability and pushing people away can affect their relationships. Good therapy provides much needed hope.

“Our therapists understand the unique challenges that teens and young adults go through. We take the time meet you where you’re at, and provide whatever support and tools that you need. Therapy is a place where you can be the expert of your own life, even as you’re still growing and changing.”

~ Christine Frank

RELATIONSHIPS

EWN professionals help troubled relationships over, around or through the obstacles that prevent genuine regard, understanding and partnership. We work together to confront and heal the hurt places to rediscover a loving, healthy relationship where all feel heard and seen.

It is our pleasure to work with all types of relationships, straight, cisgender, LGBTQ, siblings, parents and adult children, whatever.

“EWN Relationship Counselors provide the leadership often needed to navigate from anger, a healthy emotion that can turn toxic if not processed, to compassion, where healing begins.” ~Kate Keating Maleski, LCSW-R

WEIGHT & SHAPE

Obsessed With food & weight? You are not alone. Dissatisfaction with weight and shape is so common that it can be easy to forget the toll it takes on a person’s ability to live well.

If you constantly worry about your weight, your body shape, or your relationship to food or are trapped in patterns of eating or exercise that you want to change, we understand. Pressure from society’s perfectionistic expectations can be too much.

We know that ‘it’s not just about the food’.

“We work with clients to explore the reasons people often stay stuck in patterns that do not serve them. Many experts agree: diets just don’t work. We can help you break free from dieting worry.” ~Emily Becker, LMSW

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Dr. Aletta provides executive coaching, team building, talent selection, assessment, and other training to high level business leaders. With 20+ years experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Aletta is an excellent listener who quickly grasps the underlying issues with which individuals and teams struggle.

Executive coaches contract with business decision makers to optimize their organization’s leadership, management performance and development. Dr. Aletta assists the business leader to achieve a mutually identified set of goals to improve his or her professional performance, career and personal satisfaction.

“Leadership is much more than vision. It is the ability to communicate that vision to others; to partner with them to direct everyone’s energy into creative action.” ~Dr. Aletta

TELE-SESSIONS

Throughout the United States and around the world, people are connecting with Explore What’s Next for therapy sessions through tele-sessions. Geography is no longer an obstacle to getting the help you need!

Tele-sessions are more like office visits than you think. Just like face-to-face visits, we schedule our tele-sessions for 50-60 minutes. For your comfort, we do our best to create a safe space in which we can talk without distraction.

Good counseling is no longer limited to a brick and mortar office.” ~Dr. Aletta

The Studio at Explore What’s Next offers gentle, nurturing self-care classes & workshops. Our mission is to be a resource center for anyone who wishes to enhance their well-being, while feeling emotionally and physically vulnerable at the same time. From our sensitive awareness perspective and trauma-informed care training, we explore yoga, meditation and mindfulness as well as provide workshops, seminars and groups in a wide-array of subjects, from baby-proofing your relationship, living with chronic illness, to financial wellness and more. To be as strong, confident and resilient as we can be, we believe that a healthy mind thrives in a healthy body. All offerings at The Studio are open to the public in our beautiful, ADA compliant space.

A trusting relationship with your therapist is key. Using the therapeutic approach that best fits your needs, we help you reach your goals whether it’s overcoming depression or anxiety, gaining control of stress, a stronger self-esteem or finding peace of mind.

Psychotherapy requires active participation on your part. You bring motivation, we bring the expertise. You are not alone.

“Explore What’s Next therapists know this is a vulnerable time for you. We do not take your respect and trust for granted. We earn them.”

~Dr. Aletta

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy takes courage. Good psychotherapy uncovers painful aspects of your life that obstruct your happiness, re-discover the good in you that has been buried deep, find confidence to use your strengths and your voice.

A trusting relationship with your therapist is key. Using the therapeutic approach that best fits your needs, we help you reach your goals whether it’s overcoming depression or anxiety, gaining control of stress, a stronger self-esteem or finding peace of mind.

Psychotherapy requires active participation on your part. You bring motivation, we bring the expertise. You are not alone.

“Explore What’s Next therapists know this is a vulnerable time for you. We do not take your respect and trust for granted. We earn them.”

~Dr. Aletta

LGBTQ+ empowered!

Explore What’s Next is excited to announce our newest group: LGBTQ+ empowered! LGBTQ+ empowered is a six-week support group for teens and young adults. The group will meet one day per week for an hour and fifteen minutes at our Delaware Ave. Office with group leaders: Colleen Conjerti, PsyD and Christine Frank, LMSW.

LGBTQ+ empowered will provide a safe and supportive environment to discuss and explore a variety of topics. Sessions will include check-ins, mini mindfulness practices, goal development, and maintenance, as well as some creative coping activities participants can take home with them!

We want this group to focus on topics relevant to teens and young adults who are part of the LGBTQ+ community! This will be a place where your voice is heard and understood!

Although we will focus on topics participants would like to cover, a few areas we plan to address include:

Social Issues

Healthy Relationships

Friendships

Family

The Process of Coming Out

Anxiety & Depression

Self Esteem

Coping Skills

Assertiveness

And more!!!

Before the group begins, participants will meet with Dr. Colleen Conjerti or Christine Frank, LMSW. This gives us a chance to meet face-to-face, discuss the group in further detail, and decide if you would like to sign up!

Good counseling is no longer limited to a brick and mortar office.” ~Dr. Aletta

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING & ASSESSMENT

Psychological testing is often requested by schools to evaluate a student for support services, by physicians, other professionals, sometimes the patient themselves, to clarify a diagnostic picture and to focus treatment more effectively.

If you or a family member needs a psychological assessment contact us.

“Seeking out a comprehensive psychological assessment can be overwhelming, we provide the guidance and support you need, while offering compassionate answers to difficult questions.”

~ Colleen Conjerti

TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS

It is not unusual for teens and twenty-somethings to experience emotional highs and lows as they move through this challenging phase of life. Teens, emerging adults, and their parents all need to be aware of the differences between “normal” moodiness and stress, and what constitutes a mental health issue.

Mental disorders, especially anxiety and depression, impact all aspects of a teen or young adult’s life: appetite, sleep, the ability to focus or concentrate, be creative, and learn new things. Irritability and pushing people away can affect their relationships. Good therapy provides much needed hope.

“Our therapists understand the unique challenges that teens and young adults go through. We take the time meet you where you’re at, and provide whatever support and tools that you need. Therapy is a place where you can be the expert of your own life, even as you’re still growing and changing.”

~Christine Frank

RELATIONSHIPS

EWN professionals help troubled relationships over, around or through the obstacles that prevent genuine regard, understanding and partnership. We work together to confront and heal the hurt places to rediscover a loving, healthy relationship where all feel heard and seen.

It is our pleasure to work with all types of relationships, straight, cisgender, LGBTQ, siblings, parents and adult children, whatever.

“Explore What’s Next therapists know this is a vulnerable time for you. We do not take your respect and trust for granted. We earn them.”

~Dr. Aletta

WEIGHT & SHAPE

Obsessed With food & weight? You are not alone. Dissatisfaction with weight and shape is so common that it can be easy to forget the toll it takes on a person’s ability to live well.

If you constantly worry about your weight, your body shape, or your relationship to food or are trapped in patterns of eating or exercise that you want to change, we understand. Pressure from society’s perfectionistic expectations can be too much.

We know that “it’s not just about the food”. We work with clients to explore the reasons people often stay stuck in patterns that do not serve them. Many experts agree: diets just don’t work. We can help you break free from dieting worry.

“We work with clients to explore the reasons people often stay stuck in patterns that do not serve them. Many experts agree: diets just don’t work. We can help you break free from dieting worry.” ~Emily Becker, LMSW

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Dr. Aletta provides executive coaching, team building, talent selection, assessment, and other training to high level business leaders. With 20+ years experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Aletta is an excellent listener who quickly grasps the underlying issues with which individuals and teams struggle.

Executive coaches contract with business decision makers to optimize their organization’s leadership, management performance and development. Dr. Aletta assists the business leader to achieve a mutually identified set of goals to improve his or her professional performance, career and personal satisfaction.

“Leadership is much more than vision. It is the ability to communicate that vision to others; to partner with them to direct everyone’s energy into creative action.” ~Dr. Aletta

TELE-SESSIONS

Throughout the United States and around the world, people are connecting with Explore What’s Next for therapy sessions through tele-sessions. Geography is no longer an obstacle to getting the help you need!

Tele-sessions are more like office visits than you think. Just like face-to-face visits, we schedule our tele-sessions for 50-60 minutes. For your comfort, we do our best to create a safe space in which we can talk without distraction.

Good counseling is no longer limited to a brick and mortar office.” ~Dr. Aletta